--- title: "The soilKey Pro Shiny app" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{The soilKey Pro Shiny app} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", eval = FALSE ) ``` `soilKey` ships an interactive Shiny app that drives the whole pipeline from a browser -- no R code required. It is meant for agronomists, students and field workers who want to classify a profile, inspect the deterministic key trace, and download a report without scripting. # Launching the app ```{r launch} library(soilKey) # The professional multi-tab app (default). run_classify_app() # Equivalent, explicit: run_classify_app(ui = "pro") # The original single-page CSV uploader (v0.9.39 layout): run_classify_app(ui = "classic") ``` The `pro` interface needs the optional packages **bslib**, **shinyWidgets** and **plotly** in addition to **shiny** and **DT**. If any are missing, `run_classify_app()` stops with a copy-pasteable `install.packages()` line. The `classic` interface needs only **shiny** and **DT**. ```{r deps} install.packages(c("shiny", "DT", "bslib", "shinyWidgets", "plotly")) ``` # The eight tabs ## Pedon Seed a profile three ways: * **Fixture** -- pick one of the 44 canonical profiles (31 WRB reference soil groups + 13 SiBCS ordens). These are the same fixtures the test suite uses, so they are guaranteed to classify cleanly. * **Upload CSV** -- one row per horizon. Columns are matched against the canonical horizon schema; unknown columns are kept, missing ones are filled with `NA`. A starter CSV is available from the sidebar. * **Blank** -- start from an empty template and build the profile by hand. Every horizon cell is editable in place -- click a cell, type, press Enter. The depth-profile plot on the right updates live; switch the plotted attribute with the dropdown. When the table looks right, fill in the site metadata (ID, latitude, longitude, country, parent material) and press **Build / update pedon**. ## Classify Runs WRB 2022, SiBCS 5 and USDA Soil Taxonomy 13 side-by-side. Each result card shows the full classification name, the bare RSG / order, the principal and supplementary qualifiers, and the provenance-aware evidence grade. The **Decision detail** panel exposes: * **Key trace** -- every RSG tested, in key order, with pass / fail / indeterminate status. Failed and passed rows are colour-coded. * **Ambiguities** -- RSGs that nearly satisfied; useful hints for follow-up measurement. * **Missing data** -- attributes whose measurement would refine or resolve the result. ## Photo Drives the vision-language extraction pipeline. A profile photograph yields Munsell colour per horizon; a field-sheet image yields site metadata. The taxonomic key is **never** delegated to a model -- extraction only fills the `PedonRecord`. The default **Demo (mock)** provider returns a canned, schema-valid response so the pipeline runs offline with no API key. To use a live model, configure an [ellmer](https://ellmer.tidyverse.org/) chat object before launching: ```{r vlm} options(soilKey.vlm_chat = ellmer::chat_anthropic()) run_classify_app() ``` ## Spectra Attach a Vis-NIR spectrum (one row per horizon, one column per wavelength) and gap-fill missing horizon attributes against the Open Soil Spectral Library. Filled values enter the provenance ledger tagged `predicted_spectra`. The first gap-fill downloads an OSSL cache, which needs network access. ## Spatial Queries a SoilGrids "MostProbable WRB" raster around the profile coordinates and reports the spatial distribution of reference soil groups -- a prior to sanity-check the deterministic classification against. Point the **Raster path or URL** field at a SoilGrids GeoTIFF, or set a local raster for demos: ```{r raster} options(soilKey.test_raster = "/path/to/a/wrb_raster.tif") ``` ## Uncertainty A Monte-Carlo robustness analysis: each run perturbs texture, pH and organic carbon within typical analytical error, then re-classifies. The robustness percentage tells you how often the class holds; the bar chart shows which alternative classes the profile flipped to. (From v0.9.100 this tab upgrades to a provenance-weighted posterior distribution.) ## Report Downloads a self-contained cross-system report (WRB / SiBCS / USDA plus the horizon table and provenance log) as HTML or PDF. PDF needs a working LaTeX install; if it is missing, the app falls back to HTML and tells you. ## Settings Sets the diagnostic engine (`soilKey` strict thresholds vs. `aqp` regional tolerance), the WRB Tier-3 strict-mode toggle, and the missing-data policy. These choices propagate to every classification run in the app. # Notes * The app is fully local and deterministic. The taxonomic key is canonical YAML + R; only the optional Photo tab can call an external model, and only when you explicitly configure a live provider. * The `classic` app is unchanged and remains available for the simplest CSV-in, results-out workflow.